Today I stumbled upon these photos of these truly amazing chalk murals done by this guy they call the sidewalk chalk guy (I know, original). his art literally jumps off the pavement at you because it is done with such genius. The illusion is truly deceiving and would have me trying to jump in his chalk pool. The works range from wacky and lighthearted to some that look like Renaissance mosaics. These more serious are kind of thought provoking as well as being beautiful. One depicts tormented souls trying to escape through the sidewalk, reminding me forcibly of depictions Hades. Fortunately the others are not so grim. One of the more fun ones is of a sea lion balancing a candy bar on his nose, really makes you want to grab it.
This guy has not only great talent but equally great courage to go out there in the busy streets and put his work out for everyone to see. When asked why he does he simply replies, "I think art should be out for everyone to enjoy not cooped up in some museum." And I agree; imagine how beautiful our world would be if we just put all the art out there for everyone to see. The artist would probably have a hard time making a living but we could figure something out. See the amazing chalk art for your self.
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Rat Eating Plants!
I came across an extremely interesting if not totally disturbing article about a plant found in the Philippines that eats rats. Apparently this bell shape plant attracts its fury victim with a secretion that smells mighty yummy, when the rat scurries in to munch down it is trapped by the secretion and slowly digested alive by the enzymes produced by the plant. I need to get one of these for my backyard because my lazy cat doesn't catch a thing
The plant was discovered on Mount Victoria by a team of British Botanists led by Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson. The plant is the largest of pitchers, or bell shaped plants, and probably the largest meat eating shrub. This rat does not look happy but neither would I if was being slowly digested alive by some crazy plant.
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Our Amazing Reading Mind
Apparently our minds don't need all the letters in a word to be in the right for us to read it. A study has been done at the Cambridge University that proves the human mind can read words even when they are jumbled as long as the first and last letters are in the right place. It trips you out at first by after looking at the words for a second you realize that you can read them perfectly well. The article goes on to explain that the mind has this amazing power because it does not every single letter individually but the words as a whole. This goes to show amazing our minds truly are. They are our single most powerful and valuable tool. Just think about all the crazy tricks our mind can do that we don't even know about yet. They say we only ten percent of that gray squishy thing, imagine when we tap into the other 90%. I won't need my phone to call you anymore I'll just send you a brain wave. Check this phenomenon out for yourself.
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The Nepenthes plant! They are many species of these in all sizes, and if you keep an eye out in plant section of Lowes hardware, you can get a small version of this plant. It won't eat rats, or even mice, but it handles small insects well.
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